In September, the International Finance Corporation published the third round of its annual rankings of countries, based on an index…
Italy?s most obvious tie to India is through a fluke of personal histories intertwined with politics. Yet when one compares…
Earlier this year, Benjamin Bernanke, then a member of the US Federal Reserve Board of Governors, and now the head…
Lack of sufficient job growth has been a weakness of economic reform in India. This is apparent in public perceptions,…
The United States is a land where the rags-to-riches tale is a powerful social driver. This tale has pulled in…
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh?s visit to the US last month can be termed a strong success, achieving concrete objectives, as…
India was an economic under-achiever for four decades after Independence, but that has changed. While the debate on economic reforms…
Seven years ago, I attended one of the early US-based conferences on Indian economic reform and presented a paper titled…
Earlier this month, I attended TiEcon 2005, the annual conference of The Indus Entrepreneurs, a South Asian networking organisation born…
The world economy is at the threshold of a new era. People realise this, of course, though from different perspectives:…
The report of the Twelfth Finance Commission (TFC), recently made public, marks another slow step towards the maturing of India?s…
There were plenty of advance indicators of the Budget vision and no real deviations from these. Rural development and infrastructure…
With the 2005-06 Budget just around the corner, I took some time to look at the highlights of the last…
The Indian government has recently proposed two policy initiatives that have captured attention. One is innovative in legislative implementation though…
2004 has been a surprisingly good year. The world economy grew at an estimated 5%, according to the IMF?s September…
